Portable car-window guard



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- E. WHITNEY. 4 PORTABLE GAR'WINDDWI GUARD. No. 326,003. yPatenfiedlSept. 8, 1885.

I UNITED STATES PATENT CFEIcE.

ELI WHITNEY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

PORTABLE CAR-WINDOW GUARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,003, datedSeptember 8, 1885.

Application filed January 12, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELI WHITNEY, of New Haven, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inPortable Car-Window Guards; and I do hereby declare the following, whentaken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters ofreference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, and which said drawings constitute part of thisspecificatiomand represent, in--- Figure 1, the guard as open for use;Fig. 2, the same when folded; Fig. 3, a perspective View showing theguard arranged in the open window as for use.

This invention relates to a guard to be set beneath the raised sash of acar-window to protect the passenger near the window from dust, smoke,&c., the object being the construction of a guard which may beconveniently carried in the pocket of a traveler and by him applied asoccasion may require; and

I it consists in the construction as hereinafter described, andparticularly recited in the claim.

Ais a bar made from thin light metal, hard rubber, or other suitablematerial, in length less than the distance between the sill of thewindow and the bottom oi the sash when raised. At its lower end it isroughened or serrated, so as to take a firm bearing upon the sill, andits upper end is shouldered or reccssed for the sash to take a bearingthereon.

Upon one side of the bar, near one end, two arms, B C, are hinged upon apivot, a, and near the other end upon the opposite side two like bars, DE, are hinged upon a common pivot, 12, and so that the arms may beturned, one of each pair to the right and the other to the left, orturned upon the surface of the bar, as seen in Fig. 2, to bring theguard into a contracted condition. Preferably connection is made betweenthe ends of each pair of arms by a cord, (1, or otherwise. Thiscompletes the guard as an article of manufacture.

It is applied as seen in Fig. 3. The sash is raised, the-bar A is set,its lower end upon the window-sill F, then the sash brought down untilthe lower edge, G, will rest upon the upper end of the bar A, and so asto hold the bar firmly in a vertical position. The armsare then turnedoutward and inward, as shown. Then a common newspaper or otherconvenient light sheet is placed against that side of the guard towardthe direction in which the car is moving. The force of the air producedby the moving car against the paper on the guard will hold it in thatposition and serve to deflect the smoke or dust which would otherwiseenter the window.

Instead of applying paper or a detached sheet to the guard, it may besome light fabric, as thin linen, fixed to the arms, and so as to foldwith them into the compact condition.

The guard when not required for use is so small and light as to beconveniently carried in the pocket of the traveler.

I am aware that portable car-window guards have been made, consisting ofan upright having arms hinged thereto to support a flexi- 7 ble materialas a guard, but do not claim, broadly, such construction. I claim Theherein-described window-guard, consisting of the bar A, serrated at itslower end 7 to rest upon the window-sill, and constructed with ashoulder at its upper end to receive the sash, combined with one pair ofarms, B C, hung upon one side of the bar near one end, and a like pairof arms, E, hung upon the opposite side of the bar near the oppositeend, and so as to swing in parallel planes to or from the surface of thesaid bar, substantially as described.

ELI WHITNEY.

Witnesses:

J OHN E. EARLE, J 0s. 0. EARLE.

